Jo_Ann

This is a replica done in HDA10, so the dimensions will not be exactly as yours. But I think that you can apply some of the settings (and tricks) to your own plan, with some adjustments. Hopefully this will get you closer to what the outside and inside is want you want it to look like. designer468 house.plan

The pic I posted, was your file altered in the Home Pro Trial version, and the trial version file can not be saved. Further, you need to post some pics of what the other parts of the roof (opposite side of the house) look like.

Open Home Designer Pro 2018 Data folder, then the Archive folder. If you had previously saved the plan, the older version should be in there.

1st....What solver said. 2nd... Post jpegs directly, not a zip file of jpegs. 3rd... You have done so MANY things wrong, that it is apparent that you really need to study the guides more, and view tutorials and knowledge base files too (especially concerning roofs). Also, you can't just guess at what the real house settings are (room ceiling heights, roof pitch, etc.). They have to be correct. Too many things need to be changed for anyone to really offer specific help. This pic is the best guess I could make...

If you had the Architectural version of the software, you could cover that up with a sloped soffit. But, you have Suite, and Suite doesn't have sloped soffits. The only other choice, is to create a a sloped panel in Sketchup software (free), and import it into your plan.

My new version of the house, after you changed the garage and other things.

This was my 1st version of the house.

For the living room dormer: Highlight the dormer, then go to your TOP toolbar (under edit) and select "copy". Move to the 2nd floor on the floor plan. Go back to the top tool bar and (under edit) select "paste/ paste hold position". The dormer should automatically copy on the 2nd floor level. Go back to floor 1 and delete the floor 1 dormer. This should only leave an outline of the dormer (instead of the entire dormer) on floor 1, and that is much less intrusive on your floor plan in the kitchen area. This takes less than a minute to do. It appears that you have done the screened room correctly, and I don't understand why you are having trouble changing the pitch of the roof. It needs to be set at "4" to place it just below the 2nd floor windows. The shed: I don't understand why you are having a problem lowering the roof on the right side of the shed (south side on screen) to 6'. You seem to have grasped the ceiling height concept very well in the 2nd floor room over the garage. If the shed is meant to be attached to the garage, why have you drawn it completely unattached? Once again, you only need to lower the pitch of the shed roof, if you want it to attach to the garage wall, beneath the garage fascia eave (probably about 2.5" to 3" pitch).

Your file is a hot mess. I don't think anyone will be able to figure out what kind of look that you are trying to achieve.

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After you post your plan file, you will still need to better explain what end result you are trying to get.

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You haven't drawn the shed in your plan (you should), but I'm not understanding what problem you are having? I do see lots of clean-up that needs to be done. Also, I think you have incorrectly set up the great room. You already have a 2nd floor, so reset the walls above the great room to not be attic/no definition. Designate the new room as 'open below' and set the finished ceiling to "0", and 'no ceiling over this room'. On floor 1, copy/paste in place the dormers to the 2nd floor. Back on the 1st floor, you can delete the dormers, which will eliminate the wall clutter.

Hint: You've experimented with enough different designs, that by now, you surely must know that roofs only build over 'rooms'.

Use windows 'snippet' tool.

Not enough correct information for anyone to be of enough help to you. In your prior threads, you indicated that part of the structure is elevated from the other (elevated via foundation or ceiling???), and you wanted to connect a 3rd structure (slab) to those structures with steps. What is what??? Then, in your uploaded file, auto rebuild roofs is turned off, and any corrections made, (to get the roof built in your file) have been undone. How did you expect to rebuild your roof? A lot of clarifying is needed, to be of any help with your file.

Maybe try this: First, you should build a second floor over only the basic house. Open the 2nd floor and set the room type as 'open below' . Open the structure tab and set the finished ceiling at "0", uncheck 'ceiling over this room'. It appears that you might have a loft, and this paves the way. Do all the roof settings on these walls. Back on floor 1, you don't need to pull in the east/west walls of the porch (put them back to the edge of the house). Next, draw an island room (invisible walls) within the deck room. Set north invisible wall as 'full gable', and other 3 invisible walls at the pitch you specified. Open the outer 'room' dbx, and uncheck 'roof over this room'. Start moving the north invisible wall towards the house until you see the roof overhang (green dashed lines) just touching the house wall. Next, start moving the other 3 walls to reign in the wild overhang! Open the island room and start raising the finished ceiling until it blends correctly with the house roof. The 3 walls and the ceiling height will probably take a lot of finagling.

Another idea.

Set the half wall 'balusters' to be 84", change the rail to drywall, and install the door. Use a box shape or custom counter top for the top shelf (soffits don't work well). You can add molding to a custom counter.

If I am understanding this correctly, you want to build a house that accommodates the slope of the property? The house floor is at one level, and the garage is lower. The living area appears to be at a different level only because it's ceiling is taller. Realistically, I don't think it's possible to build the house on a slab, when you consider the property slope (at least not if you are wanting to accommodate the slope). Assuming that your property elevation is correct, this what what I think you are going to get.

Open the material in the older plan, and look at it's color numbers in the material definition dialog. Write down those numbers. Then follow this kb article, and add the color numbers to the new material. https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-00924/customizing-a-material.html

To lower the stucco walls to floor level, for example, I opened the room dbx for the room next to the garage. That floor (D) is set at -900mm. If Suite has this setting, 'Stem Wall Top (C)', set that at 10mm lower than -900mm (-890mm).

This is what you currently have. The rooms descend from each other, and I added the doors so that this is visible to you. The terrain slope needed to be adjusted. This exposed some of your foundation, so you need to work on that. I think you need to adjust the top of the stem wall height, as each room steps down. Is each ceiling height supposed to get higher as the rooms step down? The ceiling height is what keeps the roof at the same eave level. What happened to the high shed roof that you wanted?

Why are you using 3 1/2" fir framed walls? I think that you have sabotaged yourself from the get-go, and you should start over. Make sure that the snap settings are turned on.